This light main course salad is a perfect way to celebrate the summer harvest ( recipe here ). I'm kicking off BlogHer's new Market...

Blister beetles attacking Swiss chard in my kitchen garden. For more about how to deal with blister beetles—and the many ways we use...

Freshly picked Masai green beans (haricots verts) Will you be eating anything from your garden this Independence Day? I don't know what...

Lots of beautiful basil from just two plants (I love these $10 take apart shears ). Want to see more of my garden? The new weekly Fr...

Growing in the garden now, left to right: Dwarf Siberan kale direct seeded last fall (and mostly flowering now), one gorgeous lone dinosaur ...

Things are greening up in the greenhouse ! Realization of the Day: As much as I love lemon balm, it's probably time to stop its greenho...

Beautiful, nutritious beet greens, all sprouted from one little beet seed (which is actually a dried fruit containing a cluster of 2 to 6...

Gorgeous gourmet Asian greens: not available in most stores. There are many things to consider when deciding what to plant in your vegetabl...

Southern half of the raised bed kitchen garden, as seen this afternoon from the second floor of the new house! Yesterday it was sunny and i...

Harvesting basil in the June kitchen garden with my new favorite scissors . Realization of the Day: A few months ago, I wrote a long post ...

Swiss Chard & Artichoke White Pizza ( recipe here ) Realization of the Day: It's time to start putting those seed orders together! ...

Cold kale in the kitchen garden Realization of the Day: Sometimes it's better to wait until the sun hits the garden before ventu...

Not to worry—you can pick green tomatoes and ripen them indoors , off the vine. How was your tomato season? Ours was pretty disappointing, ...

Does anything taste better than a BLT made with homegrown tomatoes on homemade bread? Realization of the Day: It's the little thing...

This was supposed to be a short post about the blister beetles , but once I get started talking about diatomaceous earth it's hard for...

Thai pink egg tomato patch after about three minutes with the scuffle hoe. Back on June 30, 2006, a month and a half after declaring myself...